Isaac

No. I can't see how I do. If you think I do , then give us an account of it. Then why ought we support them? It's rational for me to earn money, does ...

Which one? The one you experienced with the red post box, or the one from the red wine, or the red rose, or the red car...which of them is the 'red' o...

It's a 'strong' claim because you said so? Hers' my 'strong' argument for it. There's absolutely no evidence for it. No one can describe such an exper...

I'm curious about what you find to be so boring about the risk of nuclear escalation resulting from the very actions you're currently supporting? Unle...

You don't know who NATO are? Never heard of RAND Corporation? Never come across Carnegie Endowment? What about the US intelligence service? Heard of t...

Interesting. So, your study of the credibility and biases of the sources you do use - how was that carried out, and what were the results? Take... ......

Which sensation?

So why them? Which one said that, for example,... ...and why did you choose to believe them over, say, Swift Center analysts, or Alexander Vershbow, N...

So, do I take it you've no intention of giving any explanation as to why you've chosen to believe those experts (nor even telling us who they are it s...

I'm interested here in why people believe the things they do, so there's no need for me to clarify anything in the respect you suggest. I'd be as inte...

OK, well let's explore one. When was the last time you had an experience of red and how did you know that that's what you were having at the time?

OK. So why? Now we've got past the pointless repetitions of the mere fact that they're probably going to fight and into the matter of interest - on wh...

This is why I like discussing with you. You never fail to disappoint. Just when I think your defence mechanisms can't get any more ridiculous, you com...

Sure, but this is post hoc. The social constructions from which we build our narratives are made available first (albeit by disproportionately able-bo...

So you keep saying, but you're offering nothing by way of argument. I don't agree that there exists a 'sensation of red'. I've studied perception (in ...

As high as the causal factors suggest. Events don't happen because history books dictate they should. Events happen as a consequence of their immediat...

This... ...is in reply to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/758255. If all your historical examples show is that it's possible for a s...

Those are all there is to 'the sensation itself'. You have evidence of something more? @"Banno" has already disabused you of this misunderstanding. Yo...

The indices I cited include measures of outsourcing. Is your claim then, that Norway is more violent than the US?

Thanks. I often wonder if anyone is even reading what I write. Yes. It's what keeps me here, my interest in what motivates such a position and, more i...

Then why did you post it in reply to @"Manuel"?

There are many larger governments in terms of spending, taxation, laws, public sectors, and government bodies per capita. If you want to limit your ar...

"That red postbox was very vibrant for a moment, it reminded me of blood for some reason, I think it was the horror film I'd just watched. Just as the...

I've literary cited the evidence to the contrary. If you're going to just keep repeating your position without addressing the opposing evidence then i...

Yes. And you've failed to prove, of even demonstrate that argument. Governments currently have an almost total monopoly on violence. They use this mon...

Yes. In the terms of your argument. You are arguing that violence breeds violence. You are including in "violence" the sorts of government coercion in...

So? Who did you think needed telling that? What, in @"Manuel"'s post gave you the impression he thought Russia either must use nukes or must not? It w...

Gods! Did you even look at any of the links? Low taxes, low public expenditure, low public sector, low government per capita rates, laissez faire econ...

It doesn't. It supports the tautology that the most violent governments are the most violent governments. It does not support your view that violence ...

It shows that decreasing the size of government, by any measure at all, does not decrease violence. Your argument that "violence begets violence", if ...

Try this one then https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Global_Militarization_Index And here's a different measure of government size. ...

I've literally just cited the evidence to the contrary. Bigger governments do not lead to more violence. The Global Peace Index takes several measures...

Yep. Agreed. None of which removes the fact that there's no evidence of a link between more interventionist government and increased violence. Decreas...

There are no modern communities without governments so this line of argument is fruitless. Here, however, is the Global Peace Index https://en.m.wikip...

We're not talking about a mere change in policy here. We can easily argue that Stalin or Mao need not have killed all those people by pointing to huma...

The numbers are irrelevant because you've no contrasting numbers for a modern society without government. That may number in the billions. Having no c...

It doesn't seem to. I've been to a number of protests, some have turned violent. Often (though not always) the police's threat of violence is enough t...

What happened to... Suddenly history become all important again now it backs up your position. The case not so "unique" anymore, now it suits you to s...

Why not?

Why are your only two options total military defeat or submission to their will? Has the concept of negotiations passed you by entirely?

So in ruffian controlled territory, families ought to just up sticks and move? Odd then that you use the exact opposite argument again the position th...

You won't have a choice. The children will be located wherever the most powerful bully forces them, and they'll have access to whatever drinking sourc...

Well then don't give it to me. Give it to all the other people reading the thread. After all... ...so we'd best rectify that.

Your support for continued war. That Ukraine ought (not 'will', 'ought') to regain their lost territory by military means. More importantly, that othe...

Are you seriously trying to claim that no children have ever died from contaminated drinking sources?

All right. 50.

I'm not asking you for data, I'm asking you why you hold the position you do. 4. 100,000,000. Presumably, if we have "no idea" then you'll have no gro...

Go on then. While you're at it, we'll have the evidence for...

So considering that... You'll have no trouble backing up that opinion with evidence then.

I'm not. There's a whole army of qualified experts out there publishing their findings from whom you can obtain informed opinion. The numbers of dead ...